Stalking Sebald

It was all the more surprising and indeed alarming a little later, said Austerlitz, when I looked out of the corridor window of my carriage just before the train left at seven-thirteen, to find it dawning on me with perfect certainty that I had seen the pattern of the steel and glass roof above the platforms before, made up as it was of triangles, round arches, horizontal and vertical lines and diagonals, and in the same half light.